piratage
\pi.ʁa.taʒ\
The verdict
“piratage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,230. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,230
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attaque sournoise d'un système informatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piratage · piratage · French
piratage · rank #13,230 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,230
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pieux
Nearest frequency peer: pieux (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « piratage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- performant
performant
86,774 corpus weight
- perpétuité
perpétuité
86,773 corpus weight
- pieux
pieux
86,772 corpus weight
- piratage
piratage
86,771 corpus weight
- plants
plants
86,770 corpus weight
- pneu
pneu
86,769 corpus weight
What this shows « piratage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piratage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʁa.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « piratage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around piratage (IPA \pi.ʁa.taʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,230 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for piratage, with forms such as "ipratage", "piartage", and "piraatge". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "pirate", "portage", "partage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is piratage, spelled P-I-R-A-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Attaque sournoise d'un système informatique.
- 2Téléchargement illégal de biens culturels en dépit du droit d’auteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piratage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les techniques de piratage informatique.
Le gouvernement canadien a répondu en organisant un sommet national sur le sujet et en promettant d'interdire les importations de dispositifs de piratage, d'augmenter les peines pour les voleurs de voitures et de renforcer les moyens de l'agence des frontières.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipratage
- piartage
- piraatge
- pirataeg
- piratagge
- piratgae
- pirattage
- pirratage
- pirtaage
- ppiratage
- priatage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piratage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "piratage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).